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"Step Inside Carole Lombard&amp;#39;s Dutch-Style Residence in California\nThe screwball-comedy icon purchased the Hollywood Hills residence in 1934, shortly after her divorce from her first husband, fellow actor William Powell\nCarole Lombard leans against a tree in the front garden of her house at the foot of the Hollywood Hills.\nLombard, reclining on a m\u00E9ridienne, hired a friend, actor William Haines, to decorate. With his film career suffering, Haines had just begun one in interior design. He did not charge the actress a fee, hoping instead that positive reaction to the house would launch his business. He was right.\nThe dining room.\nIn the living room, Haines used custom lighting and furniture, such as lamps he fashioned from marble busts and a Neoclassical-style low table made in his own workshops\u2014elements that were to become key ingredients in his signature look.\nSome of the Oscar-nominated star\u2019s most creative parties were held in the living room, including the one she threw after the project was completed. On that night guests arrived only to discover that the house was without furniture; they were told to return to see the finished product.\nMotion Picture magazine, noting touches like an overscale daybed, concluded, \u201CAny male who ventures [into] Carole Lombard\u2019s new house will feel as shaggy as Tarzan. Its femininity is so unmistakable that your first glance tells you that it is occupied by a single woman.\u201D\nPartly because of her relationship with Clark Gable, Lombard, relaxing on her patio, drifted away from Haines. When she bought a new house in 1937, she did not hire the designer. Haines was hurt by the loss of his friend and devastated by her 1942 death in a plane crash."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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